Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The influential think tank urged urban planners to make restoring nature a "foremost priority", warning that almost half of global GDP in cities - $31tr - currently runs the risk of disruption from flooding, drought, air pollution, a lack of green areas, and unsustainable urban growth, all of which are exacerbated by nature loss.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The report, which was commissioned by the Mayor, found that between 2000 and 2018 London achieved a 57 per cent reduction in workplace greenhouse gas emissions, a 40 per cent reduction in emissions from homes, but just a seven per cent reduction in emissions from transport.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 24, 2021

But people criticized that version for not considering how these companies polluted nonwhite communities. Newly added criteria weigh whether a company acknowledges environmental justice issues and researches any penalties it has incurred for pollution. Factor in its $1.5

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AGreenLiving

MAY 12, 2020

Just as real-life youth are growing up in a world where pollution will ruin their health , neighborhoods, oceans and planet if they don’t take drastic action, so go their virtual counterparts in The Sims. Originally, The Sims came out in 2000, a spinoff of the SimCity game introduced in 1989.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. From 2000 to 2016, the global obesity rate increased by 4.4 as clients. percent, according to an FAO estimate.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000. The “Make Polluters Pay” campaign billboard in New York’s Time Square on September 18, 2023.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. And they considered CO2 a pollutant back then.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

The report also alleges that pension funds have overstated the costs of previous divestments from controversial industries like the tobacco industry (which CalPERS voted to divest from in 2000) and from thermal coal (divested under a 2015 state law ). Gonzalez, who introduced SB-1173, wrote in an April op-ed in the Sacramento Bee.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This includes measures that work to reduce an entity’s carbon footprint , effectively manage waste , prevent pollution and conserve resources. Modern businesses operate in a world that has tight social regulations, and one that creates a diverse and equal workforce while also reinforcing human rights and workplace health and safety.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Hundreds of countries around the world have agreed to draw up an international treaty to tackle the devastating impacts of plastic pollution, in an "historic" UN-led decision today that could lead to legally-binding international commitments and targets to slash plastic waste levels and engineer a more circular economy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. is continuing, as a Panel to consider a series of questions related to Environmental Pollution. Excerpt from the Task Force Report on Environmental Pollution, November 1964. Read the entire document on DocumentCloud.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

According to Climate Central , about 83% of significant reported power outages between 2000 and 2021 in the United States were attributed to weather-related events. From 2000 to 2021, there were more than 1,500 weather-related power outages, according to the Energy Information Administration. are volunteers.

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Grist

MAY 23, 2024

Seafood is a particularly significant source — perhaps because so much plastic pollution winds up in the ocean , where it breaks down and can be mistaken by fish for food. More research is also needed to understand the exact effects of microplastics on reproductive health, although many scientists agree they’re probably bad news.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

in 2000, the New York Times expressed that it arrived just at the right time as consumers had become more likely to hunt for bargains rather than shop at department stores and it was now “more chic to pay less.” This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Campaigners are stepping up calls for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as evidence grows that voluntary measures are struggling to turn the tide of plastic waste. Inevitably, there is barely any part of the planet or daily life that is not touched by plastic pollution today. What has happened to all that plastic waste?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

in 2000, the New York Times expressed that it arrived just at the right time as consumers had become more likely to hunt for bargains rather than shop at department stores and it was now “more chic to pay less.” This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth. By 2050, it may be possible to reduce 550 million metric tons of carbon pollution through the combined use of efficient appliances, lighting and equipment, as well as better insulation, weatherization and building methods.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The chemical was brought under scrutiny by campaigner Erin Brockovich, and made famous in a popular 2000 movie that took her name – leading to attention from the public and legislators alike. It targeted financial relief for infrastructure, alternative energy sourcing, and scientific research and development. Wastewater 2012- 2022.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2022

an environmental health scientist and bio-social scientist at the University of Washington. This is a massive increase from just 10 years ago, when less than half a million people were exposed to unhealthy levels of smoke pollution. Understanding the health impacts of exposure. Interventions to mitigate health risk.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution. Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Alongside French environmental groups Surfrider Foundation Europe and Zero Waste France, ClientEarth claims Danone - the firm behind leading brands such as Evian, Activia, and Volvic - is failing to comply with French environmental, health, and human rights laws.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. There is much more understanding now of how companies and their supply chains are dependent on the health of nature to be successful," Cartwright argues.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Electricity was produced almost entirely from nuclear and coal; natural gas wouldn’t be used in a power plant until 2000. When you’re talking about burning gas inside a home,” said the Sierra Club’s Kresowik, “you’re talking about significant health-damaging air pollution.”. That is not what this is’.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

🐄 Dalan Animal Health , an Athens, GA-based bee vaccine developer, raised $5M in Seed funding from Prime Movers Lab and At One Ventures. degrees Celsius last Tuesday—nearly a full degree Celsius above the average between 1979 and 2000 and a sign that the Earth is heating up more rapidly than anticipated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Despite mounting scientific evidence of their harms to human health and the environment, pesticides have proliferated, with global usage up by about 80 percent since 1990. Litigation concerning the health hazards of various pesticides, including glyphosate, stems from companies hijacking the regulatory process, he explained.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Furthermore, he added, the facility is subject to annual audits by the Railroad Commission, the Texas Department of State Health Services, clients, and other groups, and also “more frequent surprise audits.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Most of the lobbying dollars from Californians for Energy Independence were used to defeat legislation to build buffer zones between oil and gas wells and sensitive sites like homes and schools; the Newsom administration has proposed its own rules to remedy this health hazard, though they contain loopholes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and the pollution standards, which are open for public comment until August 8, will mark a new milestone in climate action. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. Some studies indicate the technology does little to reduce emissions, and may even increase carbon and other air pollution. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

Welcome to the world of the communicating climate change action as seen by Americans of every stripe since Al Gore raised the profile of the issue in his 2000 campaign for the Presidency. Do you want to know why issues like health care, taxes, mass shootings, and immigration rise to the top of voter concerns ? We Win Either Way.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 4, 2020

Large majorities of Americans across all community types believe urgent action is needed to reduce the pollution that is causing climate change. This is the largest pro-environment margin since 2000. They also all believe that the U.S. should produce more wind and solar energy, and less coal. Subscribe in a reader

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Obama administration seized on a Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas emissions posed a danger to human health and could be regulated under the long-standing Clean Air Act to introduce a wave of emissions standards across multiple industries. New research highlights huge cost of global air pollution crisis.

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